Please test and report any issues as soon as possible. We plan to do a 2.3.11 release based on this by the end of the month. There are no planned security updates for the 2.1.x and 2.2.x branches, so they will become obsolete with the October 2013 security update.

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

These releases update our OpenJDK 6 support to include the latest security updates. We recommend that users upgrade as soon as possible.

IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric architectures. If you find an issue with the release, please report it to our bug database under the appropriate component. Development discussion takes place on the distro-pkg-dev OpenJDK mailing list and patches are always welcome.

Full details of the release can be found below. Note that we have also included a subset of the changes which were part of the 7u25 update, compromising of those which we thought safest to include in a stable 6 release.

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

This release updates our OpenJDK 7 support to include the latest security updates. As mentioned in the notes for the 2.4.0 release, we also continue to track the upcoming u40 release upstream and this update synchronises IcedTea with 7u40 b31.

IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric architectures. In this release, use of the system version of LCMS is disabled by default to ensure the most secure version is used. Before using the system version, please ensure it is version 2.5 or above, or it has the S8007925, S8007926, S8007927, S8007929 and S8009654 updates listed above.

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

These releases update our OpenJDK 7 support to include the latest security updates. We recommend that users of the 2.1.x and 2.2.x branches upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. The security fixes are as follows:

S8001330 is currently only provided for HotSpot 23.7 on 2.3.x, as we’ve found it to be unstable when applied to the older HotSpots. If we find a solution for this, we’ll issue a further update.

This will be the last set of updates for the 2.1.x and 2.2.x branches. Users should upgrade to either 2.3.10 or the upcoming 2.4.1 release. Those users who need ARM32 JIT support should wait for the 2.3.11 release, coming in the next few months, which will add this to the 2.3.x series.

IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric architectures. In this release, use of the system version of LCMS is disabled by default to ensure the most secure version is used. Before using the system version, please ensure it has the S8007925, S8007926, S8007927, S8007929 and S8009654 updates listed above.

Happy hacking!

Observant people may have noticed that there’s a new security release on the horizon. We’ll have new releases for you (1.11.12, 1.12.6, 2.1.9, 2.2.9, 2.3.10, 2.4.1) as soon as possible. We’re currently trying to resolve differences between what we got ahead-of-time and what Oracle have now posted publically for 7u, and are still working on backports for 6.

However, once you do have the update, you’ll noticed your plugin is broken. Don’t fear! The clever people over on the IcedTea-Web team are already aware of this and have produced a fix, which you can even install ahead of the security update. A new IcedTea-Web release will be out soon which includes this change.

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

This release is the next major release supporting OpenJDK 7. It is based on what will eventually become the upstream u40 release. As u40 is not yet final, a later release in the 2.4.x series will bring in the remaining changes from upstream. However, we are releasing 2.4.0 now as we feel that a major release is already long overdue (2.3.0 was released on the 15th of August, 2012) and the myriad of bug fixes listed below should be made more widely available.

In addition to OpenJDK, IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric architectures.

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

This release updates our OpenJDK 7 support to include the latest security updates. We recommend that users of the 2.1.x branch upgrade to this latest release as soon as possible. The security fixes are as follows:

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

This release updates our OpenJDK 7 support to include the latest security updates. We recommend that users of the 2.2.x branch upgrade to this latest release as soon as possible. The security fixes are as follows:

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

The 1.12.5 release updates our OpenJDK 6 support on the 1.12.x branch to include the latest security updates. We recommend that users of this branch upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. The security fixes are as follows:

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

This release updates our OpenJDK 7 support to include the latest security updates. We recommend that users upgrade to the latest release from the
appropriate branch as soon as possible. The security fixes are as follows: